School+Segregation+8A

//This wiki was done by: Priscilla A. and Marcello P.//

=**__//SCHOOL SEGREGRATION//__**=

There were a lot of different and wrong things between the black and the white schools. White schools had better equipped teachers, bathrooms, and school supplies; also certian spots of the school were a lot cleaner too. Even the water fountains were different, a black kid's water fountain at a black school may be a lot more smaller, dirtier, and not as healthy when it came to water quality. //Another sad and frustrating situation was the fact that a black child may be only a block away from a White kids school, but they would have to walk two miles to get to a Black, segregated school.//

The first picture shows the cover of a book, __Remember__ by Toni Morrison. In this book, it talks about a lot of the differences between the two schools, it shows a lot of important pictures and facts. Especially since a lot of this information came from actually black people who had to live through this in their childhood. Than there is a second picture after that which looks like a picture of a house. It wasn't a house at all, __somehow this was a segregated school for black children__. It looks like that this school is located miles from town, in the middle of a large and flat plain. It must be at least three or four miles away from town, think about having to walk that distance for both getting to school and getting back home after school, every day, that had to be tuff, especially the first couple of days. Also as was mentioned before, this house like school was very small and there were a lot of black kids, for all we know this may have been the only segregated school for miles. Which would make it very crowed, think about how crushed you would feel in a room the size of a semi-large bathroom with about fifty or sixety or even a hundred kids, and also trying to pay attention to the teacher all at the same time. There was also probably only one bathroom, or maybe not any bathrooms at all, but if there was it must have been very dirty, as goes with everything else in the school as well. These two images are exactly what I'm talking about, even the political cartoon is. Both of the pictures are talking about two different types of water fountains, one for the blacks, and one for the whites. In both pictures the water fountain to the left is big, clean, and well built, with a sign pretty much saying for white people and white people only. But the sink to the left is extremely small, dripping water, dirty/rusty, and the water is spatting out, and what makes things even worse, the signs that are above both water fountains don't say 'black' but instead they say awful things like "Colored" and "Poor Only". The black girl in the picture can barely even fit her head inside to get a sip of the water. //__Segregation Websites:__ http://alt.tnt.tv/movies/tntoriginals/wallace/seg.time1.html - A website about segregation. http://www.remembersegregation.org/ - This website is a really amazing one, I highly suggest going to this one. It talks a good amount of segregation and the beginning is very amazing. http://www.gothamgazette.com/article//20060116/202/1718 - An article about school segregation. __Videos:__ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1964989542240302444&q=Segregation&hl=en - Segregation Video - Priscilla A.

Jim Crow laws had a huge effect on all things. It was the right to enter public places such as resturaunts, public facilites such as drinking fountains, bathrooms, waiting rooms, train stations, and things of this sort... but it effected schools the most. This hurt many blacks because they felt as if they could not even get a decnt education. For instance black families sent their chldren to all black schools no matter how far the distance was. Blacks had to walk such long distances to get to school when whites had to walk just a little bit because their was a white school up very close to a large amount of white families.... this was not the same for the black families. Also, white schools were better in building wise. If you take a look at these two pictures you see that the white school building looks a lot better than the blacks school building. If you had to choose, I believe you would choose the white school. The first picture is a black school building, and the second picture is a white school building. As you can see there was a difference in school buildings, the whites had the better ones although Jim Crow laws specifically said "seperate but equal". Another difference was school material, black students had old worn out text books that weren't up to date. On the other hand the white school had new text books that were up to date with new school supplies and better learning materials. Blacks unfortunatly had old materials with worn out objects that was not good to use for learning. Unfortunatly Jim Crow laws didnt really defend black students becasue fo the fact of different colors. This would soon change during the Brown v.s. Board of Education trial. " Racial segregation had NOT marked their souls (Remember, by Tony morrison)."// //- Marcello P.

Thank you for taking your time to read our information and true life history on segregation!// //Sincerely,
 * Priscilla and Marcello**//